A Tampa-area man knows how to sell his 1993 Corvette like a boss — with girls and guns and stuff. Our own Chris Tonn is talking about the car in the forums.
This Craigslist entry doesn’t detail the 1993 Chevrolet Corvette “Show Car” all that much, but it does make up for the lack of specifics with an abundance of “experience.”
Like aforementioned chicks and trophies and guns.
(H/T to Murilee Martin who should be scored on the official’s sheet with an assist.)
The automatic convertible, presumably with some miles on it, has won more than 20 “BEST in SHOW” competitions, according to the listing.
According to the photos, the car has seats and seatbelts, four wheels (five if you count the steering wheel), a five asterisk rating and probably some familiarity with whiskey rock in its cassette deck.
For only $26,000, it could be yours. Or, you know, about three times what the car is worth.
Yeah, I’m thinking no.. He can keep it. Too much crap on the car to be worth it. He must think he’s got a Miami Vice thing going.
I can understand the pizzazz if the car was going for a few grand over value, it seems to look like a really nice example from that era but for the money he’s asking I could buy an ’09 Corvette and have a car that would blow the doors off his model. Sometimes people just want to get their 15 minute of fame and he’s certainly the kind of guy who seems to think it’s his good looks and not his bank account that allows him to be a total creeper.
Dunno how I missed it earlier, but I think he’s sporting a gold chain, in accordance with custom.
Corvette owners are a strange people with unique customs.
This guy is exactly how I picture a Corvette owner in my mind. Was not let down.
This guy is not helping to dispel the Corvette owner stereotype.
If he was in the Midwest and it was a little colder I’m sure he would be sporting one of those cheap, cheesy Corvette “leather” jackets. Until these types of guys die off, Corvette will never be considered by the likes of those that buy Porsches and BMWs.
“the likes of those that buy Porsches and BMWs.”
Yeah, this pud couldn’t pull-off the trimmed beard and sick-little-monkey smirk.
But he’s got the fat-rolls you see the younger ones sporting these days.
Don’t forget overly big watch and Bluetooth ear piece!
I also feel like this guy might have, or at some point has had, a replica Countach on a Fiero chassis.
I can smell the Hai Karate from here.
Corvette, check.
Hot late 20s woman, check.
Kalashnikov, check.
Well that’s most of the things I need, but where are the liquor and golf clubs?
In the trunk/glove box.
You like the too much makeup and too tight clothes look?
I’m assuming this isn’t a ZR-1.
I’d take an early 90s ZR-1, but I can find one with some miles on it for well under $20K.
(If this is a low mileage ZR-1, it may be a reasonable price)
What I really want to know is does it have a “Protected by Viper – STAND BACK!” alarm system?
Yep, it’s overpriced. Well, he has to do something to pay for all those boob jobs and guns, I guess.
I don’t find that woman attractive in the least.
I agree (wouldn’t mind doing her though)
She’s overdone and over-processed.
Not that this is a promising start, but how would TTAC fare if the forums had more traffic than the blahg?
I’m just going to go to the forum to see how Norm is. The government must have let him, and his Encore, out of Area 51.
Freedom! Chevrolet! Apple Pie! Pit bull!!
Of course, it takes a real global citizen to get over the NATO bias against the great liberator’s gun. You can tell by his gold chains and that nifty shirt.
There’s one born every minute.
“Our own Chris Tonn is talking about the car in the forums.”
Wow, he is talking about the car, indeed! Kind of like a fake homeless on a Manhattan street talking about salary income – by himself.
Nice click bait, TTAC.
’tis the life of an itinerant writer: shout n’ shill.
The Beatles did Paperback Writer…
Now you gotta step up. Maybe the B-Brothers can help.
I’d bet they have some tambourines lying around.
Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book?
It took me years to write, will you take a look?
Hey dumba** readers, will you read my post?
I’LL USE ALL CAPS IF IT WILL HELP THE MOST
It’s based on the drivel that’s inside my head
I can’t hold a job, so I want to be an internet poster
Internet poster
(forgive me, Sir Paul)
I like your version.
I once played clarinet in a middle-school marching band with Bark.
True story.
Looking at all the rice-works, I thought Honda guys hated GM!
fyi the last few Craigslist cars I’ve looked at in person have been rolling wrecks, I’d be surprised if the headlamps still pop-up on this one.
It’s a sleazy poser car, complete with posing sleazes. The juvenile Playboy bunny decal really closes the deal, though.
Anyone who pays anything extra due to the silly staging of this used Chevy is a fool.
Gravitas
I really hope the guy is trying to be ironic with this ad.
What shows was this mess a 20 time winner, Hooters?
So what the US has come to in order to sell a car, I need to hire bored strippers and a hooker and festoon them with weapons that an Iraqi would be ashamed of all while placing them perfectly to hide the damage incurred by my drunk a** hitting the garbage cans.
No sale.
and fittingly enough the car is an automatic…
An automatic C4 needs all the help it can get.
I could imagine Philip Seymour Hoffman playing this guy – if only…
Over priced, but it looks like a pretty nice car. The body kit and hosed-down-with-Armor-All look bothers me more than the chicks and guns. Always thought C4’s look better bone-stock. Never seen a wing, wheels, or other add-on that made them look any better.
C4, stock, in dark green with directional alloys.
http://www.digitalcorvettes.com/corvette-photos/data/509/Green_9-22-08_2_.JPG
Most winning.
The only way it’s worth that much is if it’s a ZR-1. However, a body kit and wing would hurt the value of such a car. Therefore I don’t think it is one (plus he would have mentioned it somewhere). Also, it’s an automatic.
You and Corey are right. C4s should be stock. Well, unless they are a Callaway car. Even that is kind of stock.
1. All guns are always loaded (fail)
2. Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy (fail)
3. Keep your finger off the trigger till your sights are on the target (fail)
4. Be sure of your target and what lies beyond it (fail)
Shirt (fail), Bunny sticker (fail), body kit (fail), gold chain (fail)….
Just so much fail in one ad and story. A record for TTAC.
I call crack pipe, too much tacky, and the AK is a true metaphor for this Vette, crude, cheaply made and finished, but reasonably effective and reliable. I prefer an AR, better finished, better ergonomics, and equally good performance and reliability as long as you do some minimal maintenance.
Give that dude a Navy cap to complete the stereotype.